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Today is Friday, March 20th and Pilsie.

We asked he answered Brady Kachak comes up clutch.

I don't think you can have much more of a Brady Kachak statement game scoring the game

winner in the dying seconds of the game, getting into a fight with the other teams

captain off the opening draw, six shots on goal, three hits.

You couldn't have asked for anything more of Brady Kachak in that game and it was poetic

justice that he's the guy that gets the winner.

I've been watching that replay, the highlights, the Senators posted a picture and picture

of Brady scoring and I think it was a section in the 300s of when he scores.

It's just going crazy.

They posted the game audio so you get to hear all the noises of it.

The talk with Claire Hanna after his post game media availability, it's all just so good.

If you're a sense fan you've got to be eating this up and for everyone that's been down

on Brady late, why aren't we seeing the captain drag his team into the battle?

He hasn't come up clutch.

He hasn't been physical.

When's he going to fight again?

Brady answered all of those questions and fatically last night at home.

His first fight since March 27th of last year, almost a full calendar year and I had a

couple of people say, wow, your takes yesterday, aged poorly.

I would say they aged perfectly, but they aged perfectly.

We said Brady Kachak is at his best when he gets involved physically in the game, not

even just the fight, but then his next shift after that, all, next shift you watch, Ridley

Greg throw it with Braden Shen, who thought he was going to crush Ridley Greg.

This smirk after he got a couple in right off the bat, turns out Ridley, good last bridge

boy.

He can eat a couple and give him back twice his heart, couple brand of weak king alumni

is going toe to toe here and Ridley buckled him right through his knees by the end of the

fight.

Brady was fired up about that and what does he do next shift goes out, crush his Adam

Pelle, like we ask, give me a Chris Neal hit right off the bat, crunches him into the

boards.

Later on in the game, Matthew Schaefer, little gamesmanship when Lars Eller had his skate

blade loss kind of blocks him off.

Who's there?

Bodyguard Brady comes in, pushes him out of the way, says a come with me, Lars, we're going

to the bench, fella, just an all around fantastic game, couple great opportunities he could

have scored on earlier in the game.

The chance at the end of the second period had a slot opportunity in the third didn't

go his way, but he battled through and back door gets the puck through with 11 seconds

remaining.

We know Brady could chuck loves to fight captains.

The fourth time in his career that he's fought a captain, the others, Jacob Truba, Blake

Wheeler and Shay Weber back during the all Canadian division, just a fantastic performance

from captain Brady could chuck in this game.

We could we could speak a nauseam about how the boys needed that and I mean, it just shows

too.

Another great take by us, credit does.

I'm getting a little sore on my back here from all these bats, but they follow the leader.

You think Ridley Greg, when's the last time he dropped the gloves?

I think it was when he was answering for a hit a couple months ago, even maybe the Minnesota

game earlier this year, but man, you follow the leader, that's what the senators did, Shane

Pinto after the game says, as Timmy and Brady go, we go and Timmy now.

No points in three games and it doesn't even matter because the team is finding different

ways to produce and last night it was the captain's turn to lead the way.

Yeah, and for people that were saying our takes aged poorly, I don't think they understand

what we were doing.

We weren't condemning, break Chuck for his lack of physical play.

We were pleading encouraging, suggesting, so yeah, that was perfect and you could just

feel it, Ross.

I was on Fandall, Brady point, Brady shots, Brady goal, like the only one that didn't hit

was power play point.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So for him to get that, like I had beer league last night, so I missed most of the game,

came home, was watching the game in my hot tub with headphones on and Brady scores that

and I'm just yelling and screaming in my back yard and you've got to refill the hot tub.

You knocked all the water out of it celebrating.

Yeah, no kidding.

My neighbor's probably thought I was going crazy back there, but just in all time moments

and let's also knock loss over the fact, yes, big statement game by the captain at home

in front of the fans, reminding them what he can do and how he can lead.

But getting that game winning goal in regulation was huge for the standings.

Not only obviously, you don't want to give the islanders any points who the islanders

now sitting outside of a playoff spot with that lost Columbus Bluejack, it's jumped

them into that third spot in the Metro, but you also increase your regulation wins, which

I think that might end up playing a part here without tight this races.

You want to have that ace up your sleeve that you've got the advantage in the tiebreaker

with other Atlantic and wild card teams.

So just a massive, massive goal to be scored in the dying seconds.

It was as excited as I've been for a win that we haven't been boots on the ground for

all season, like just the way that they were able to do it, the way that they were able

to really, I think, solidify themselves in the third period because everyone's going

to talk about that moment rightfully so, but the shots on goal in the third period.

I mean, it told you the story of this game, Ottawa controlled it completely.

They had multiple opportunities.

I do not know how Michael and Maddo's two on one chance did not go in the back of the

net.

It's a broken glove and it just didn't keep rolling.

It just landed in the crease and didn't move, but Ottawa controlled this game for the

entirety of the third.

Well, I shouldn't say the entirety.

They gave up the goal very early in the period, and that was the Islander's only shot

Ross one goal, one shot in the third.

So like if you're the sense of probably sitting there being like, man, we're controlling things.

One shot gets through.

It doesn't matter.

They don't give up.

They keep pushing.

They keep pushing.

They keep pushing and they're going to need to continue even further when you look at

what's coming up.

And we'll touch on that later on in the show Pillsie.

I meant to play this in the post cast last night, but I want to for the audio listeners

and for the people who didn't get to catch Jack Richardson doing the live stream because

his reaction.

I mean, this is why you do the live streams.

You want to engage and have a great time with the citizens.

The numbers have been off the charts.

And it's moments like this that make it so special.

Here's Jack Richardson's live reaction to the Brady Kitchock goal that won the game.

Things in around 15 seconds left, Spence throws it to the minutes loose.

Brady, Brady, Kitchock, man, let's go.

Oh my God, 11 seconds left.

The captain, there's no way.

There's just no way.

You could not write a better story.

What a bounce.

Kitchock.

Of course it's Brady Kitchock.

Of course it's Brady Kitchock, man.

Let's go.

That's awesome.

There's no way.

There's just no way call that's that's going to go down in the history books, all time

calls.

Jack is having an absolute blast and he deserves a moment like that for the moments going

the other way and not so much that he's had to endure live.

So shadow.

And shadow to just the team talk to bottom, the depth scoring comes through again with

Warren Fogel.

By the way, that was a shift where it was Tim Stutzlough filling in at center on the

fourth line with Zetterland and with Fogel that worked out well.

Those guys played a minute and 20 seconds together.

The shot attempts were seven, nothing for Ottawa when those three were on the ice.

And they obviously come up so big with the game tying goal.

The sends don't win this game unless they tie it first.

So I don't think we can gloss over that nice little play too.

Like that's a bouncing puck that Fogel's got to find behind the goal line, pull it out

and get it in the back on the left side too is a left hand shot.

That's a tough play to tuck it in back in there.

Well, he banks it off.

Seroke and diving back.

So you get a bit of puck luck there and shout out Deniziel bear.

Yeah.

It's a nervous system looking like Danny pot van out there.

Hey, Pox on net.

Now it might have been a floater, but Brady could chuck set after the game.

One of the things that the senators have been instructed to do is even if it's not

a clear lane to the net from the point, shoot it at bodies.

Because you never know where it's going to bounce both of the senators third period goals

come off of shots from the point that hit bodies bounce around and end up with a fortuitous

bounce right onto the stick of the player that put in the back of the net.

And it just had to be the captain last night, just incredible to see the senators by the

way won that game by a score of three to two.

And that gives them their 29th regulation win of the season, which is the most of any team

in the wild card race.

The senators, though, still five points out they do have a game in hand on both Boston

and Detroit.

And you can even start looking like Montreal's got 84 points as well.

Columbus at 83 in Pittsburgh with 84 all in the metropolitan division and the islanders

have 83 as well.

So there's that clump of teams and we'll let you know after the break, why this is going

to get even more interesting if auto what take cares of business on Saturday with the

way that the out of town scoreboard is set up no matter what we'll get to that.

Next we'll look at how the decore in particular Thomas Shabbat and Jordan Spence have elevated

in the absence of Jake Sanderson, plus we'll look at a weekend preview ahead of the game

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All right, Pillsie to put a bowl on the Brady Kachak conversation from last night.

Our friends over at Optistats noted that last night, Brady Kachak became the first player

in NHL history with a fighting major in the first minute of regulation and a game winning

goal in the last minute of regulation in the same game.

Like that is obscure, but man, it's sick.

That's the Brady Kachak experience right there.

I mean, that's what you want from your captain.

All right, Puck's dropped, get it going, quick tilt, dying seconds of the game.

It's tied, score that clutch goal.

And at home in front of all the fans, you'll have to see it.

I'm a little upset that the TSN camera was focused just on the face off dot because

if there was like an all 22 style camera above, everyone would have known.

Because Brady Kachak lined up at right wing for the opening faith stop.

True.

Might be the only time he's lined up at right wing in the neutral zone all season.

So you knew something was up and Shane Pinto, who sits next to Brady Kachak in the locker room,

said, yeah, I knew he was going to go even Travis Green said before after the game.

Like I had a feeling he might be ready to go.

Brady said he made up his mind throughout the day, probably after he listened to locked on sets.

Yeah, I mean, then good choice.

And especially like captain versus captain right off the draw center ice.

That's so awesome.

And the final piece of poetry in all this goes back to October in one of the most devastating

early season losses that Ottawa had against the New York Islanders.

It was onters Lee, their captain that stripped the puck and scored in the final minute.

So in both games, I think there was a third one in New York, but both games in Ottawa this season,

the captain scored the game winner in the final minute.

And they fought at center ice like that's hockey.

And Ross to continue on the poeticness of this, who did onters Lee beat to get that puck to score the game

winning goal. Jordan Spence.

Let me ask you a question who took the shot to create the game winner.

The primary assist was Jordan Spence.

I mean, how can you not be romantic about hockey?

Imagine not liking hockey greatest game on earth.

Let's go.

It's a perfect transition into how the Ottawa senators have handled the loss of their most important

defenseman, Jake Sanderson.

The sends are now four, two and oh, with Jake Sanderson out of the lineup.

And now you can even double down that.

No Nick Jensen either for the last two games and earth last three games.

When you're looking at a situation where the Ottawa last four games, rather you played two, my apologies.

That all said, the Ottawa senators are right now in a situation where their depth

is being tested and the boys are coming through.

Now, it was almost kind of like stressful in a way because you know that the neat

Gilbert is the sixth defenseman.

Like he didn't even play 10 minutes in last night's game.

He was pretty limited.

I thought he made an impact beyond just the shot that created the time goal.

I thought that he was getting in the mix a little bit too physically.

He had a good little battle or two in the defensive zone where him and I don't know if it was barzal or about one

of the guys kept going back and trying to cross check him again and again.

And that's what you need for your depth guys, but it's the big dogs that come through.

Thomas Shabbat.

How much ice time almost 31 minutes last night?

30 53 and that's all coming out of a game playing.

I think it was like 28, 20 or something like that.

Like Thomas, but think back to the days when Thomas Shabbat was playing plus

25 minutes every single night, this guy's a horse for a reason.

He's got an endurance.

I'm glad you mentioned that because the L.O.S.P stats department has gone back and said,

when's the last time Thomas Shabbat played that much in one game?

The answer, you have to go back to 2022 December of 2022 where he played 31.

Oh, four. Now get this.

That was a shootout game.

He also played over 31 minutes, two other times in the 2022, 23 season.

Both of those games went to overtime.

If you're looking at a regulation game where Thomas Shabbat played more than he did last night,

you have to go back to November 22nd of 2021.

We're talking a month after fans were allowed back in the building after COVID was the last time Shabbat played

that much in a game that did not go to overtime.

They lost that game seven to five against Colorado.

And I know there's exactly one person out there that immediately said, hey,

that's the Zach Sanford Hattrick game, the Ottawa Senators, but I mean,

you're talking about five years ago, Pilsy and to do it in the second half of back to back,

stick tap, Thomas Shabbat, what a performance for him carrying so much responsibility

and coming through clutch for him as well.

And you look at it like he's had a good supporting cast back there.

Jordan Spence is the guy I really want to highlight because since Jake Sanderson has gotten

hurt and that was March 7th in the six games, Jordan Spence's expected goals percentage at five on five is 71.2%.

Jordan Spence is among, if not the NHL leader in expected goals percentage.

Like this guy, when he's on the ice, the puck is just always in the offensive zone.

Yeah, he's so good.

I mean, even defensively, I find myself being really impressed with how he plays.

And him and Tyler Clevver, like, don't, like, that's almost as in stone,

if not as in stone as Sanderson Zoo, when these guys are healthy.

Like, and you look at it, you've got two deep hairs that are working really well.

Each guy knows their role.

So now all we need to do is find that partner for Thomas Shabbat.

And you've gone a back end that you're really comfortable with.

And the way Jordan Spence is playing, you can play him anywhere.

Like he's been mostly a third pair guy, but he's showing he can handle second pair minutes,

not just handle them, excel in second pair minutes.

He could play top pair with Jake Sanderson.

Those two have had good numbers together.

I mean, that would be breaking up the both pairs that I just said you should keep in stone.

But Jordan Spence really makes you much more comfortable that maybe this the idea

that this team's desperate need to acquire a right shot defenseman isn't as prioritized

as we kind of felt it was.

Well, when Thomas Shabbat plays as much as he does, he's going to play with everybody.

But you want to hear a nice little stat, five minutes and 16 seconds together last night.

At five on five, we saw Thomas Shabbat and Jordan Spence play together.

Pillsy, the shot attempts were 12-1 Ottawa during that five minutes and 16 seconds.

So maybe Jordan Spence is the partner for Thomas Shabbat.

But like, if you look at it, Ross, I'm going on money puck right now.

I'm already there. Shabbat Spence is the number one pair for the Ottawa Senators

and expected goals for Senators this year.

Number two is Sanderson Spence.

Number three is Clevver Spence.

I mean, literally, there's no Spence.

Those are his top three partners.

The only three minutes or more.

Yeah, only three.

And his number one, two and three on expected goals for like, this guy is just so good.

It's crazy.

He is an incredible.

They got him for a third and a fifth round pick.

Are you kidding me?

Or a third and a sixth?

And let's extend that, Ross.

That third round pick they got was from moving back two spaces in the draft

and they still got the guy they wanted.

And the sixth round pick was in exchange for Kevin Mandelaise.

Yeah, so I mean, when you can look at this franchise, asset management

and you can be disappointed, absolutely.

But it's moves like that where you got to give a lot of credit.

And I mean, most of the asset management and mismanagement was not on Steve

Steyos in this regime, but it's moves like that where you can really see the way

that Steve Steyos is is able to pick his spots.

And we're going to spend time in the summer.

I know there's a couple of people out there that brought it up in the post cast chat.

Like what's Jordan Spence's next contract look like?

Fascinating.

We'll have plenty of time to discuss that in the off season.

But we do know that he's a restrictive free agent.

So it's not a complete worry right now.

He's obviously going to be due for a big raise from the $1.5 million he's making right now.

But that stat that we just read out is absolutely incredible.

And if you do look at it, Jordan Spence is one of the best defensemen in the National

Hockey League at making sure that the puck is in the offensive zone at all times.

If you just look at how he controls the game and he does it so seamlessly.

And I honestly think that he should get more credit for how well he defends too,

because he defends differently than a lot of other guys.

It's not that big and make sure that you crush them into the boards and finish your hits.

But he's got a very active stick.

And he's just been such a great sign for the Ottawa senators to just have in a situation

where you need guys to step up.

And like I can't imagine where Ottawa would be if they didn't have Jordan Spence right now.

I don't want to imagine Ross.

I guess we'll never know.

We'll never know.

He is second in the National Hockey League and expected goals percentage of five on five,

only Shane Goss despair of the Carolina Hurricanes is ahead of him.

And if you go down Darren Raddish, who some people might be like, oh, who?

Darren Rash is a point per game defense from this year.

Then it's Quentin Hughes and Adam Fox to wrap up the top five.

Okay. Good. Yeah. Good group.

Pretty good company and credit to Tyler Clavin too.

Credit to Nicholas Matt and Paulo.

I'm always amazed at a guy who's in and out of the lineup.

Like Matt and Paulo had been when they come in and they just have confidence.

Like they want the puck when they're on the ice.

And I find he's he's become a lot more confident in breaking out of the zone too.

Like he's not a guy that's going to defer and wait for his partner and be like,

no, you take it out. He'll just do it himself. Great out that path.

I mean, he's kind of had to Ross, like Dennis Gilbert.

That's not exactly his skill set, right?

So Matt and Paulo has had to take charge and take initiative on being more of a puck

moving defense than then he typically is.

And he kind of, I think when he played with Clevn, Clevn was more the guy that ended up

moving the puck a little bit more.

But Matt and Paulo hasn't really had the luxury of playing with a more transitional

guy on his left side.

So you got to be really impressed with how Matt and Paulo has been just sitting there.

And now he gets his opportunity and he's doing a good job with it.

A lot of things can change between now and when Jake Sanderson returns,

but is the move to put Matt and Paulo on the left side?

When, because like when Sanderson got hurt, Jetson was still there.

And then now that you've had a lefty and a righty out, obviously Gilbert's in.

But when you put Sandy back in like, or sorry, I'm completely messed up.

But when you put Sandy in, how do you move things around?

Like, because you're in a spot now where it's like Clevn and Spence is a pair.

You just said they're in stone.

So now when you have that pair there, like, I don't know,

because I started thinking like, what about Shabbat, Matt and Paulo,

but they haven't played much if any time at all.

And then what, you're not going to put Shabbat on your third pair.

I don't know.

It's a problem for another day.

Yeah, a problem for another day.

Yeah, let's go with that because we've got a lot to get into Ross.

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How many losses to lose a playoffs series?

Four, the only difference is Ottawa's got 14 games remaining

in the regular season.

And they have four regulation losses available to them.

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All right, Pillsie.

So the Ottawa Senators took care of business last night,

but so did pretty much everybody else.

The Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1,

yet Columbus doubling up the New York Rangers 6-3.

And in games of lesser importance, but stick with me.

I'm going somewhere here.

The Panthers shut out to others for nothing.

The Lightning beat the Canucks 6-2.

The Sabers beat the Sharks 5-0,

and the Flyers beat the Kings 4-3 in a shootout.

Why have they not relegated the Western Conference yet?

This is a complete joke.

Yeah, maybe we got to send more flowers to Gary Betman,

Ross, to get him to make another decision for the sends.

There is a place in California called Ontario.

Do you think we could blame that and get ourselves

in the Pacific Division?

Yeah, maybe sneak a little of that in,

like just have Google Maps always refer Ontario as the Ontario and Cali.

Yeah, let's go with that.

That's probably our best bet.

I think so.

Six teams in the Atlantic Division will be first place

in the Pacific as of this morning.

And like, listen to those scores.

That's not even close.

Yeah, it's embarrassing.

That's 18-5 on aggregate when the East played the West yesterday.

And I'm sorry, I missed one.

Boston beat Winnipeg 6-1.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, so another tough one.

But hey, Ross, all you can do is take control of the games

you're playing and get wins, and that's what we need

from the sends tomorrow night.

And our good friend, EverydaySens,

is just all over the stats department.

He's got the EDS stats department

is the only one that rivals the LOSP stats department.

And Ottawa, this is the next four days that we care about.

Tomorrow, of course, the game we're about to preview,

sends Leafs is number one,

most important take care of business.

Then you've got, and I've been going back and forth with this,

whether I like it, love it, or hate it.

Detroit plays Boston on Saturday.

And Montreal plays the New York Islanders.

So is that good or is that bad?

Depends how you want to spin it.

I guess somebody's losing.

Do you care who wins, or is it more so?

Just please don't go to Reg, don't go past regulation.

I mean, I still believe Detroit is the team

that is more likely to fall,

and the team that Ottawa can catch.

And that's a team that you play again, moving forward.

So basically, yeah, regulation,

and I hope the worst for Detroit.

It's already locked on red rings.

Good guys, but great guys.

We got to bounce them.

Yeah, we do.

And it's just say, not personal,

but kind of is at the same time,

because Ottawa needs to get in the playoff.

No, it's not personal, it's business, business.

It's true, it's true.

It's the business of personally getting into the playoffs.

Yes, yeah.

But then the Habs Islanders games interesting too,

because the Islanders are one point up on Ottawa,

and if they win against Montreal,

then they're in the playoff spot

if Detroit loses all of a sudden.

But the spin zone of that would be if the Islanders win,

then the Habs become more catchable

if Ottawa can win as well.

So you know what, take care of business yourselves,

Ottawa on Saturday, and let the chips fall away

where they may going into Monday,

where Ottawa is the only one of those teams playing.

It's the only game on Monday.

How cool is that, all eyes at MSG?

Amazon Prime too.

They don't have a captain anymore.

So we're not getting a center ice tilt there at MSG,

like we did a number of years ago

when we had Truban Kachak going toe-to-toe.

But if Ottawa then takes care of business on Monday

and the game against the worst team

in the Eastern Conference, the SENS can be either tied

ahead of or one point back of the Detroit Red Wings

if they beat them on Tuesday.

So you're working up,

like you're working up the Tuesday.

These are two games that you good win.

You talked in your ad read about the odds

very heavily in Ottawa's favor on Saturday.

And I'm gonna go ahead and assume

it'll be the same on Monday against the New York Rangers.

But this is movement time.

Like if you're looking at like to use an analogy

of like running a 800 meter run,

you're coming down, there's about 200 left.

So you're going like you're always running fast,

but now it's full sprint here to the finish line.

And 800 meter run, the classic 800 meter.

I think it's an Olympic event.

No, it is fun.

It's just a funny distance to pick.

Yeah, I ran a half marathon once

and I didn't run at the end.

I didn't have enough gas left in the tank.

800 meters is not a half marathon.

No, that's what I'm saying.

I didn't want to use that.

I didn't want to use that because there's no running

for me at the end of a half marathon.

I think I could still like.

What about a kilometer?

That one, not a kilometer guy?

No, not really.

I like walking kilometers more.

So yeah, okay, let's we're getting way.

We're talking about Monday, Tuesday.

Let's talk about tomorrow's game.

Okay.

Well, this line up and I actually pulled up

because we still had the Toronto Maple Leafs lines

from the playoff series.

This is not the same team that we saw last April.

No, I mean, the captain injured.

Cristana injured.

Mitch, player gone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Anthony Stolars is not the Anthony Stolars

of the bottle.

Ottawa would have swept the Leafs

if this Anthony Stolars was in net last April.

I don't know about swept, but certainly would have.

Game one, game one, they would have won.

Yeah, that's what you know.

Ottawa would have won the next three, four straight.

Yeah.

So should we pull up the lines here for the Leafs?

Let's do it.

All right.

John Tavares is the number one center

with Matthias Michele and William Neelander on his wings.

Max Dome is between Matthew Nies and Eastern Cowan.

The third line has Bow Group

between Dakota Joshua and Nick Robertson.

And the fourth line is Jacob Quillin

with Stephen Lorenz and Cali Yarn Croc.

Undefense Morgan Riley with Philippe Myers,

Jake McKay with Brandon Carlo

and Oliver Ekman-Larson is with Troy Stetcher

and get this, the Leafs played a night at home

against Carolina.

So who knows whether it'll be Joseph Woll

or Anthony Stolars in goal for the game on Saturday.

Pillsy, this team stinks.

And Ottawa got a firsthand look of that.

I want to say that during this run

that the Sands have been on since January 13th,

the easiest win they had was the game

against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Is that fair to say that five to win?

Easiest win by far.

I mean, not even close.

And Adiross, it's sad because obviously

so many Leafs fans around,

I got Leafs family and friends.

And usually when these games come up

or texting back and forth, throwing chirps back,

the winner is excited.

There was none of that.

And I even tried to poke at my Leafs fans in my circle.

And they're just like, honestly,

we're just so embarrassed about how that game went.

And it's hard.

You can't beat up a fan base

that's beating themselves up even harder.

That's the thing, like it just takes the fun out of it.

So we'll see.

I'm not saying I'm hoping for a better performance from them

because I would love to just embarrass them

and dominate them again,

especially at home at the CTC.

But yeah, they're down bad.

Now the thing is, and Sands fans can relate to this

when a season's not going your way.

There's always like a no name guy that popped off.

And I'd like to shout out Brian Gibbons

for the Ottawa Senators in that situation.

But my lookout player is going to be Benoit Olivier Groot.

Oh, Groot.

Now you might have heard the name before

because his old man was a candidate

to be the head coach of the Ottawa Senators back then.

Benoit Groot, former head coach of the Gatno O'Lean Peak.

I'm not sure where he is now.

He is coaching in Switzerland now.

Is there a goalie coach for the Sands group?

Yeah, no relation there.

But Benoit Groot was the head coach for the Gatno O'Lean Peaks

and their general manager.

He was a head coach in the American hockey league

for a long time.

Ended up taking a job in the KHL anyways.

That said, Bo Groot is a Gatno boy.

He grew up just across the bridge from Ottawa.

And after getting an opportunity here,

this is a guy who was a second-round pick

in Brady Kachuck's draft year.

So he's 26 years old.

He's got three goals and four points in five games.

He's plus five with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

He got to be aware of these guys who are taking an opportunity

that maybe they wouldn't have gotten

if they were in a different circumstance and run with it.

So my lookout player is going to be number 29

on the Leafs, Bo Groot.

Okay, similar for me,

I'm going to be looking out for a guy

that's getting an opportunity

and trying to make the most of it.

That's number 63.

Matias Machelli.

Obviously, he's from Finland.

Former teammate of Lassie Thompson

who's up with Ottawa right now with Eels.

Remember when we were big Eels guys?

They had Yarventi, they had Lassie Thompson.

And the other two guys they had were Matias Machelli

and Lucas Dostal, a pretty good team, actually,

when you look back.

Yeah, ironically, Robi Yarventi just called up

to Oilers too.

I wonder how the old English pub is doing.

Remember all their goals were sponsored by that?

Yeah, and that crazy, rough looking mascot, do they?

Oh, yeah.

He looked like letting the legs fell on hard times.

Yeah.

But anyways, Matias Machelli in his last 14 games,

he's got 12 points.

And as you can see here,

he's playing up on that top line with Dabara's and Nielander.

The Leafs were hoping Machelli would replace some.

No, no, saying they were hoping he replaced it.

Bar for bar.

Bar for bar, guy for guy for place, Marner's points.

I mean, he's got 33 points and 58 games.

Same initials as Mitch Marner.

Yeah, they almost made it 63 instead of 93.

Although no, Marner was wearing a different number, 16, right?

Yeah.

But Aras, Machelli is a guy that you and I really liked

when he was in Arizona and even in Utah.

Like he's got a playmaker.

He's got sneaky skills.

So you do have to watch out for him.

So I will be looking out for him in this game.

And it's funny.

Something came out a couple of weeks ago.

I think it was right before the deadline

that they might be looking to let him walk.

I think he's an RFA after this year too.

And that maybe just hasn't worked out from their standpoint.

I don't really see him as a Craig Baroube type player

to be honest with you.

No, yeah, I don't think so either.

And I even think he's been healthy scratched

a little bit along the way here.

So it was the experiment didn't really work out

the way they want.

But I mean, when you get to play with good players,

Tvara's Nieland are both good players.

Things have been really turning around for him.

But that's not a line you have to worry about physically at all.

No.

I know that Mattias Machelli has 18 hits this season.

And I always like looking at William Nieland or he's at six.

I saw Leafs account say, I forget which player.

But one Leafs player had six hits in one game.

That equaled Nielanders total hits for the season.

Well, yeah, when Ottawa played in Toronto last game,

Dylan Cousins had four hits in the first period.

And at that point, William Nieland had four hits all season.

Yeah.

So Takeda stopping that line.

And Tvara's just having a nice season.

Like he's one of those guys where like you felt like

with the way he played, maybe he would slow down

because he's so good down low when he was younger.

And like maybe that's something where as your strength goes,

you go, he's 35 years old.

But like he's been one of the bright spots on that team.

And don't look at the plus minus,

obviously on a bad team, everybody stinks.

But he's got 55 points in 69 games,

only averaging 1802 per game.

That's a lower than last year by 15 seconds,

where it scored 38.

So Tvara is obviously going to be a guy you have to key in on

when you're playing the Toronto Maple Leafs.

But that's a line where if you're physically imposing on them,

you should be able to control it.

So they've got like the skill line there,

and then they've got their gritty line here with Max Domey

and Matthew Nies and Eastern Cowan,

where they're hoping that that's going to be more

of a grinder line, even though other than Nies,

like Domey and Cowan aren't the biggest guys.

So we'll see and Domey will punch in the back of the head

if he gets a chance, but he won't face you one on one.

And I don't think anybody needs to poke that fair.

Just let him sleep and let him just run around

and be a clown and just play your game.

I want to see that Nick Cousins and Max Domey

have an interaction.

Those hurdles first.

An interaction is a great way to put it

because that was the same play that Nick Cousins ended up.

Who did he end up fighting there?

Was it Jake McCabe?

I don't remember.

But it was on that same play where all hell broke loose

because Shocker Ridley Greg bumped into the goalie

and it was a complete yard sale in front.

And that's where Max Domey was looking at whoever

wasn't looking at him and wanted to make an impact there.

But you always have to be wary too about a team

that's been called out for being soft.

And obviously there's been a lot of talk

in the national media slash leaves media

where they didn't stand up for the hit that knocked

about Austin Matthews out of the season, greasy hit.

And we're obviously never rooting for injuries

and it sucks to see a guy like that out of the lineup.

But when you're looking at the lack of response there,

you saw the next game Morgan Riley.

I think it was the next game.

Yeah, I think he got in a fight like, okay guys.

But you do have to be understanding

that this is a team that has been called out.

So how are they going to look on the second half

of back to back?

So we're not going to get too much into the stats

other than I'm going to go ahead and assume

William Neelander will still be at six hits

after tonight's game against Carolina Hurricanes.

But this is a game you have to score first.

I don't think, I think it's fair to say

that there's not going to be nearly as much blue

in the crowd as we may have become used to.

I think it'll be more like the playoffs

like where they're still going to be leaf fans.

There's still fans that live in Ottawa.

But I don't think you're going to get the traveling fans

who are coming from Bellville, coming from Kingston,

coming from two hours away to go watch a team

that has just perennially disappointed them.

And if you go and check out our friends over at game time,

like the prices have dropped substantially for this game.

And you got to think the reason why is leaf fans

trying to get rid of their tickets.

The tickets right now are going from 50 USD

for a lease game, like that's pretty uncommon.

So get in the building.

Like you don't like it when Habs fans

and leaf fans pack the building.

This is the perfect opportunity to go

and put a sends jersey on and be a part of the solution

because it's not going to get this easy

to kick Leafs and Habs fans out of the building

then it will tomorrow night.

Yep, show up.

I mean, look at the performance.

Fans were treated too last night at the CTC.

I'm just thinking of the young family

to no fall to their own.

I get it bedtime so non-negotiable,

but if you left that game early to beat the traffic

and get out of the parking lot early,

though, like that game is the reason why you don't do it.

Yeah, among other reasons.

Never leave a hockey game early,

unless they're losing seven nothing.

That's the one time that I left the sends game early.

I was just disgusted.

I was like, I'm not watching this.

I am taking a silent protest

and I am leaving this barn.

It was in the second period too.

I was like, nope, I'm done.

That's it for me.

Thanks for coming out.

But this, like, key to victory, score first, score early.

Get a two-nothing lead.

I'm not saying coast after that,

but just take the piss out of the Toronto Maple Leafs

early on in the game and just let them,

let them bury themselves from there.

Yeah, let's take a look at the players

that will be hoping to do that for the sends.

Let's look at it.

We're expecting it to be the same lineup

that we saw against the Islanders yesterday.

Tim Stutzla with Brady Kachak.

I'm with Brady Kachak.

I just have Brady on my mind.

Obviously, no changes in the lineup.

It's Drake Batherson and Clodgeroo on Timmy's wings,

Dylan Cousins with Brady Kachak and Ridley Gregg,

Shane Pinto between Nick Cousins and Michael Amadio,

Lars Ellers, Centering Warren Fogel and Fabian Zetterlin

on the back end, Thomas Shabbat with Ardom Zube,

Tyler Cleven with Jordan Spence, Dennis Gilbert coming on.

He's on a one-game point streak, ladies and gentlemen,

with Nicholas Matt and Palo.

I mean, all signs.

He's got to think it's Linus Almark starting in goal

and James Rimer the back up.

By the way, I promise I'll do a better job here

on Twitter at Central.

I get excited sometimes and I just tweet out

during the game one word.

I tweeted out Jimmy in all caps and people like what?

Timmy didn't do anything.

I was wondering what that was.

James Rimer, Jimmy Rimer.

I don't know, I'm just having some fun with it.

That was a sick save though, right to left in the slot.

That was the best save of the night.

I also like the one in the third period,

just again, off track.

But it was a side door play where Anders Lee was trying

to control it and Rimer was down.

But Rimer, instead of just keeping himself compact,

he was like reaching out with his glove,

almost putting like a target there

and Lee just shot it right into the mitt.

I was like, that's a sick, that's just,

that's just great veteran awareness by the goal tenders.

So shout out to Jimmy James Rimer here.

I mean, it's incredible what he's done,

but also incredible with the sense of done.

They've allowed less than 20 shots on goal now

in six straight James Rimer games.

And I mean, they gave up 19 shots against the Habs

in Levy, Mara Linen's last game.

Like when a backup goalie is in,

they allow even less than they do on any given day.

It's this team structure.

I'm gonna keep saying they're too good

not to make the playoffs.

Shout out, Shane Pinto.

Yeah, James Rimer is now five, three and one

with a 247 goals against average.

Like he's doing what we ask of him.

Well, I've been quoting our guy Tyler on Twitter

for quite some time.

Politics can is his username.

Since Ulmark first dressed after his leave of absence

and the goal-tending duo became him and James Rimer,

the Sands have gotten an 898 save percentage

and they're 12, three and two.

It's all we talked about.

Just give us average goal-tending and they have.

So shout out to him who's your lock down player

to watch tomorrow night.

Well, my lock down player to watch tomorrow night

is gonna be Ridley Greg.

I'm sure all the Leafs Sands are gonna be locked on

to him as well.

They love Ridley Greg over his Toronto.

They love him.

How do you not?

Yeah, Ross, he's sitting at five games

without a point.

Last time he got a point was a goal

up against the Vancouver Connects.

Obviously, gets in that tilt last night

so he gets involved.

But look, he's on a line.

Pretty good chuck, Dylan Cousins.

I know he's not the guy that's expected

to put up points on that line.

He's a bit of a different role,

but I wouldn't mind him getting on the score sheet

here up against the Maple Leafs

and then just given that sly grin

that Ridley Greg does just to stick it to them.

So I can be locked onto 71.

The 71 Ridley Greg.

Riddle me this, riddle me that.

Ridley freaking Greg as we were so like that clip

and I haven't played it in a while.

I should have posted it yesterday.

I was too excited after his fight,

but when he got drafted

and the guy at Elite Prospects

was just calling it the worst pick ever.

Ridley Greg, by the way,

he was always a guy that needed to fill out.

He was probably 160 pounds when he was drafted.

He needed to fill out.

He's still only 23 years old.

When Ridley Greg is 28 to 32 years old,

he is going to be a mutant to play against

because he's so fast.

He's got a good nose for the net

and he can make silky plays with his hands.

He's going to be an absolute player

and I think it's going to happen

before the end of this contract as well,

but I think him on his next contract,

whether it's a $5 million deal,

maybe a bit more with the cap going up.

Like he's going to be a very, very valuable player

and I hope he's an autoac predator for life.

Jack called him untouchable the last time I spoke with him

and I mean, can you really argue that?

Now early in the show,

I did say that Ridley Greg hadn't fought in quite some time.

That's kind of a lie, but kind of not.

He did fight member Pod Coleson in Edmonton

after a hit in Pod Coleson got the instigator

because they called it a roughing not an instigator,

but it was after Ridley Greg threw a big hit.

So Ridley isn't afraid to drop the gloves,

but we know that he loves playing against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

So a very good locked on player to watch

and Ridley Greg's career against the Toronto Maple Leafs

is two goals and an assist in 11 games

plus four with 18 penalty minutes.

So Ridley me that.

My locked on player, I'm going to leave the guys

that we've already talked about today.

So I mean, Brady, Chuck, Jordan, Spence,

those are obviously guys that I'm going to be keyed in on,

but we've given them a lot of love in today's episode.

So I'm going to go with Shane Pinto

because that John Tavarez line

and most importantly, John Tavarez

is the straw that stirs the drink

with the injuries that they have.

So if you can take him out of the game

as Pinto has been able to do

with other top centers in the league,

you're really neutering what the offense

of capabilities of the Toronto Maple Leafs are.

So I think Shane Pinto is the most important player

going into tomorrow's game.

Yep, definitely.

That top line is going to be the maker break

for the Leafs tomorrow.

So if you can neutralize them,

you're probably going to put yourself in a good spot.

And I would also like to see tomorrow

a couple more shifts of Stutzler playing with Warren Fogel

and Fabian Zetterland.

I just think that they, like Lars Ellers

been perfectly fine.

I got no qualms with him being a fourth line guy,

helping kill penalties and all that.

But I just think that there's so much speed

on the wing there that if they have a center

and they can skate with them,

I think it'll just elevate them even more

like we saw with their game time goal yesterday.

So that's just something that within the game,

I don't need it to be on paper to start,

but we have seen Clodjeru's ice time

take a big nose dive recently.

And I think that the way that you can continue

getting Timmy his ice time,

but move Zeru in particular

into a lesser extent Batherson down a touch

would be to give Timmy a couple shifts

with that fourth line.

So that's just something I'd like to see

going into tomorrow's game,

which is a seven o'clock hockey night in Canada game.

No live stream tomorrow.

We don't think check in on YouTube yesterday

if that changes,

but we will have the post-cast for you immediately following

the final battle of Ontario of the season.

Pills, any final thoughts on today's show?

Oh, I lied, sends Leafs last game of the season as well.

Sends out the Leafs two more times.

Yes, yeah, the final game of the season

is up against the Leafs for the Ottawa Seniors.

In Ottawa, do you, right?

Yeah, it is.

I believe so.

Yeah, most of Ottawa's final stretch years at home.

Yeah, there are last three games

though on the road in New York against the Highlanders

and then that's back to back on the road against New Jersey.

So that'll be interesting to see if that goes.

But that's a weekend back to back between like those.

Oh, we love those.

Four of the next six are on the road

and then they'll come home for a five game home stand.

Tough home stand though.

Buffalo, Minnesota for Carolina, Tampa and Florida.

Let's go.

Hey, you gotta just play the games that are ahead of you.

Let's go.

Love it.

Pills, the final thoughts.

You got them on today's show?

Just final thoughts for me is I'm so happy

that we saw a vintage Brady could shut game.

We were longing for it.

We asked for it.

We encouraged it.

We suggested it and we got it.

So shout out Brady at the captain for giving it to us.

And the Belleville Sends are in action twice this weekend.

They're hosting the Wilkes Bear Scranton Penguins

and the Springfield Thunderbirds.

The game against Cleveland Wednesday was horrific.

It was literally two, two in the second period.

And then I looked at it later and it was seven, two for Cleveland.

Yikes.

Oops.

This is so far gone, but I don't know if Mads

is going to be back next year.

I think they might not qualify him.

Why would you not give Jackson Parsons more games right now

down the stretch in Belleville?

Yeah, I mean, maybe they still thought

they're at a point where they could salvage the season,

which probably was a long shot.

I don't know.

Maybe he's got to be the number one guy in Allen though.

So yeah, he's playing.

I think you want to get him games over anything.

And I think it's really good to get young goal

these games in the ECHL because that is a scrambly wild league.

You cannot rely on your defenseman.

You got to make first second and oftentimes third saves.

So I think it's good experience for him.

OK, we'll touch on that as things develop in the weeks ahead.

Long show today, but we did it because it was an absolute blast

to watch last night's game.

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